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Subject: [Leica] customer review, Steve Barbour's book
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu Apr 3 14:52:29 2008
References: <002f01c89553$1fcafcc0$6b01a8c0@dadquad> <C41A56EE.2A410%pkolodny@fibertel.com.ar> <001a01c895cd$bb83caf0$6b01a8c0@dadquad>

On Apr 3, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
> Hi Pablo. When Blurb books first became known to me with the 2006  
> yearbook,
> the postage rates were very high to Australia also. Since then our  
> orders
> come from Europe and the rates are more reasonable. It sounds like  
> your
> orders would come from the US? Why don't you drop Steve a line? I  
> think that
> you may be able to buy one direct from him. Worth asking anyway.  
> Steve will
> be able to claim readers on another continent. I think he has USA,  
> Europe
> and Australia so far.


Happy to do it. I have a few copies. I am looking into shipping  costs.


Steve
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> Pablo Kolodny
> Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2008 22:42
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] customer review, Steve Barbour's book
>
> Being al that heard here about Steve's and others books too only  
> thing I
> have to comment is that shipping to Argentina is just prohibitive.
> Maybe I'd have to make them ship to a friend of mine somewhere else  
> and see
> what/when/how to forward those good books to me or just wait until I  
> can
> pick them up. Some day.
>
> Pablo
>
>
> hoppyman@bigpond.net.au wrote:
>
>> Fellow LUGgers, I've just received my copy of "I never wanted to be
> famous"
>> by Steve Barbour. I expected the mood of the pictures to be bleak  
>> given
> the
>> emotional subject matter. Instead I found them to be sensitive and  
>> even
>> uplifting photographs. I thought that the presentation was quite  
>> stark,
>> being all black pages and this tended to give me an impression that  
>> some
>> photos would benefit from a lighter scheme. However, that is entirely
>> personal taste. The reproduction of the (all black and white)  
>> photos is
> very
>> good and commendably neutral. My copy came from Switzerland. I  
>> think that
>> Steve has produced a very worthwhile book, filled with sensitive  
>> and high
>> quality photographs. His care and devotion to these children is very
>> apparent.
>>
>> I recommend this one highly for everyone's bookshelf.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] customer review, Steve Barbour's book)